Why don't things abroad work the same way as they do at home, especially when they look so familiar?

An illustrated phrase book for situations where you don't need words, plus those essential phrases when you do.

How were you to know that you had to weigh and sticker your own fruit before taking it to the supermarket checkout? Or that the unidentified machine on the platform was where you should have punched your ticket before getting on the train? Or that you have to order and pay for your cappuccino before asking for it at the train station bar?

Find out essential information like this as well as how to decipher hundreds of signs in the streets, on the motorway, in train stations.

This is a new generation of phrase book combining highly illustrated practical information (with specially commissioned photos) together with essential phrases. "Collins Easy Photo" phrase books - the key to hassle-free travel.